My home is my retreat and resting place …I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside,as I do another corner in my soul.- Michel de Montaigne

Cave Homes in Bamiyan, Afghanistan

Tibet

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Bamiyan Province, Afghanistan

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter! — all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.-William Pitt the Elder

India

All language is a longing for home.- Jalaluddin Rumi, 13th-Century Persian poet

Russia

Mali

Uganda

Peru

Mauritania

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.-Helen Rowland

Tibet

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.- Benjamin Franklin

Kashmir

Tihamah Plain, Yemen

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.- George Edward Moore

Refugees returning to destroyed homes, Herat, Afghanistan

Russia

There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human society, are created, strengthened and maintained. - Winston Churchill

Tanzania

Philippines

Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.- John Howard Payne

Afghanistan

Morocco

My home is not a place; it is people.- Lois McMaster Bujold

Bosnia

Brazil

Russia

Life’s a voyage that’s homeward bound.- Herman Melville

Omo Valley, Ethiopia
It takes a lot of living to make a house a homeIt doesn’t make any difference how rich you get to beHow much your chairs and tables cost, how great your luxury;It isn’t home to you though it be the palace of a king,Until somehow your soul is wrapped round everything.
– Paraphrase of Edgar Guest poem, Home